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Researchers link El Niño to accelerated ice loss in tropics
Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found.
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Hydro-hazard research needs more investment in low-income countries, says study
Research efforts on floods, droughts and landslides are not fairly distributed globally. Although research is increasing in areas affected by these natural hazards, the number of people affected by hydro-hazards in the least ...
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New global database of dams and reservoirs could transform water management
A database developed by the Global Dam Watch (GDW) consortium is set to transform the global understanding of dams and reservoirs.
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New features in the open-source toolkit for earthquake forecast development and evaluation
An international team of 12 researchers across six institutions have recently made valuable enhancements to pyCSEP; a quintessential open-source software package used to develop and evaluate earthquake forecasting experiments.
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Researchers reveal the dynamic processes that sculpt the Arctic seafloor
MBARI researchers, working alongside a team of international collaborators, have discovered large underwater ice formations at the edge of the Canadian Beaufort Sea, located in a remote region of the Arctic. This discovery ...
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Climate report warns of escalating crisis, urges immediate action as UN summit nears
An international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists concludes in its annual report published in BioScience that the Earth's worsening vital signs indicate a "critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate ...
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Scientists explore geothermal energy potential in supercritical reservoirs
A team of EPFL scientists has provided insight into the mechanisms at work in geothermal reservoirs located deep underground, known as supercritical reservoirs. Through a combination of computer simulations and lab experiments, ...
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Research suggests Earth's oldest continental crust is disintegrating
Earth's continental configurations have changed dramatically over its billions of years' history, transforming not only their positions across the planet, but also their topography as expansion and contraction of the crust ...
Arctic ozone reaches record high in positive step for climate
Earth's ozone layer holes over polar regions, where the stratospheric ozone level is significantly depleted, have been a prevalent feature of climate change news in recent decades. Anthropogenic-sourced chlorofluorocarbons ...
Why is Mount Everest so big? New research highlights a rogue river—but deeper forces are at work
Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why?
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Oct 6, 2024
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Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000 years ago
Almost one-sixth of Earth's land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and ...
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Oct 5, 2024
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Capturing finer-scale topographic differences improves Earth system model capability to reproduce observations
Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These are considered relatively coarse with limited ability to resolve land surface variability.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Researchers investigate changes in atmospheric CO₂ levels between glacial and interglacial climates
Paleoclimate scientists are trying to understand the causes of the ~90 parts per million (ppmv) atmospheric CO2 swings between glacial and interglacial climates. Even though these cycles between cold and warm periods seem ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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Better monitoring of mining remediation: Selenium isotopes are good gauge of clean-up efforts
A new testing technique developed using synchrotron light could significantly improve how we monitor the effectiveness of remediation practices for removing selenium contamination from mining activities.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Extensive afforestation and reforestation can brake global warming
The Paris Agreement calls on us to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To reach this goal, we need to reduce CO₂ emissions and remove existing CO₂ from the atmosphere.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Climate lessons from the fall of a Pacific chiefdom
A study reveals that new dates for an ancient site in the Pacific correlate with sea level rise and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Some microbes used poison gas in battle for iron in the Earth's early oceans, geomicrobiologists find
Early in the Earth's development, the atmosphere contained no oxygen. Yet the iron dissolved in the oceans was oxidized in gigantic quantities and deposited as rock. It can be seen today, for example, as banded iron ore in ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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Antarctic 'greening' at dramatic rate, satellite data show
Vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than 10-fold over the last four decades, new research shows.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Research links El Niño to Atlantic weather a year later, could enhance long-range weather forecasting
New research has revealed that the impact of one of the world's most influential global climate patterns is much more far-reaching than originally thought.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Study: Wildfires will make the land absorb much less carbon, even if warming is kept below 1.5°C
One of the aims of the Paris Agreement was to "pursue efforts" to keep global warming below 1.5°C, but even this ambitious target would not stop the land's ability to absorb carbon weakening as wildfires become fiercer and ...
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Oct 3, 2024
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